I saw the darkness looming,
reahcing out to me from within.
Wanting only to snuff my spark.
I reached out to you.
You were not there.

I struggled, bloodied my demons in my pain.
With tooth and nail I fought for every inch of ground,
for every bit of the humanity that remained.
I reached out to you.
You were not there.

In the end I wished only release from the agony.
To surrender to the darkness of the end.
But at last.
My eyes are opened.

I can not end the suffering, it is part of me.
I can not stem the agony, it consoles me.
The pain and grief rush to consume the void your love once filled,
and cauterize my bleeding heart.

No, my anguish will not let me go softly into the night.
It will forever warm me, and cast me onward into the breach.